The union representing FDNY firefighters is demanding answers after City Hall officials discovered 68 boxes of information on the dangers of Sept. 11 toxins despite claiming for years they couldn’t find any records on what authorities knew about Ground Zero health hazards.
“For years, our members made life-and-death medical decisions based on the city’s repeated assurances that the air was safe and there were ‘no records,'” said Andrew Ansbro, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association.
“Now we learn there were tens of thousands of pages locked away — pages that could have changed treatment plans, sped up diagnoses, and maybe even saved lives.”
“Who gave the order to hide them? Who knew? And how many firefighters died because these documents never saw the light of day?” he

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